For a video game. To pay them just to hang out and write code. Truth isn't wanted anymore: only fun fiction that keeps people from having to deal with the real world.

So, let me end your suspense: The answer to the question in the title is "yes". The world is ending in 2012. That is, the final implementation of the fascist, totalitarian New World Order will be accomplished this year and you will be in that "New World" that the global elite have designed for you, and planned to implement for a very long time now. Oh, indeed, similar New World Order's have been staged in the past on smaller scales, but this time it's global because they are all in on it together! Former New World Order's didn't really fail, even if they ostensibly fell; they just passed the torch around for millennia, spreading the disease, growing the sickness in society, until finally, now, with global communication and incredible weapons of destruction in their hands, they are ready to finalize the Faustian bargain that you, the people, signed with your blood.

That's what 2012 is all about. It's not about some grand and glorious transformation or ascension to another existence! It's not about being 'raptured' to heaven at the right hand of Jesus because you helped to 'initiate the Eschaton'! It's not about 'Starseeds' being taken aboard spacecraft and getting airlifted to some other planet of the '5th dimension'. Pure and simple, prophecy is coming true, just not the way you all thought. It is the end of your world as human beings, your reduction to pure slave-hood, your children turned over to be sex toys or cannon fodder for psychopaths, and there's nothing you can do about it now.

Well, certainly nothing that is comfortable. And that's the problem. You just wanted to be comfortable. You just wanted to have your life and live it too! A house, enough food, toys, holidays, a couple of kids, growing old with someone, maybe. But no upsets! No hard choices! No upsetting the apple-cart just because something is right or true or just. You just wanted peace, and in exchange for peace, you sold your soul. And, as V said in the movie, V for Vendetta, "where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others... but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror."

But, not to worry! Such a state of affairs - of such widespread suffering and discontent - cannot last! Indeed, not! It can get worse as it generally does time and again throughout history. You will only have to suffer the totalitarian New World Order for about two years then you can look forward to 1) The sudden descent of an Ice Age that will kill billions OR 2) cometary swarm bombardment that will kill billions OR both.

On the other hand, maybe neither will happen and the masses of people will rise up against their oppressors and their oppressors will respond, in true psychopathic fashion, but killing billions in a nuclear war.

Take your pick. Frankly, I like the Ice Age option.

Of course, you might argue none of these options will come true; that they are mere speculation and can be conveniently dismissed. Even a cursory view of the current world situation shows that the world we are leaving our children will be virtually unlivable. To wit:

We cannot possibly meet our energy needs in the next 50 years with any currently available electric generation system. Today, our energy systems barely manage to provide the needed energy for the 7 billion people currently on the planet. Many are left, literally, in the dark; and those who do have access to energy know well how tenuous those energy systems are as even a slight increase in demand from inclement weather can bring the system to a halt. Yet our population continues to increase, which will lead inevitably to greater demands for energy. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by 2046 the world population will have increased to 9 billion.

Widespread agriculture has stripped virtually all existing arable land of vital nutrients and has all but completely obliterated the top soil. While those in industrial nations have an illusion of plenty, supported by a trip to the grocery store to see the well-stocked shelves, the majority of the food there consists of some form of simple carbohydrates that are grown in large quantities with the help of petrochemicals in the form of fuel and fertilizer. On average, there are two weeks supply of food on supermarket shelves. A change in weather, either from alleged "global warming" or the more likely coming ice age, and/or a downturn in the availability of fossil fuels will put an end to current agricultural practices, leading to mass starvation.

Widespread use of antibiotics has led to new bacteria that produce an enzyme that disables antibiotics. These new 'super bugs' have already caused relatively small scale pandemics. Each year, new 'super bugs' are discovered (or created) that prove more difficult to combat. Combined with modern transportation, it is only a matter of time before one or more of these 'super bugs' causes a worldwide pandemic that will completely overwhelm the ability of public health systems to respond.

These are merely a few highlights of what await our children in the world we are leaving them. None of these are dire predictions based on worst-case scenarios. Rather, they are rational, even conservative projections into the future based on current trends that show no sign of changing. In other words, these are closer to best-case scenarios, assuming that nothing unexpected happens in the next 50 years.

Is there any hope? For most of humanity, no. Sorry. The time to have activated anything based on hope is long past. You should have done it back when Kennedy was murdered. There was a small chance then. But your silent acceptance of that gargantuan lie (and all the lies since) is what spoke your permission to be enslaved most eloquently.

Certainly, there are some few who will survive but only those who have managed to re-activate their Ice Age physiology and mentality.

Human beings were only able to evolve into truly human forms during Ice Ages (which covers most of our evolutionary history) because of a superior physiology based on a particular diet of protein and fat, which facilitated big brain development and the ability to accurately assess their environment. Additionally, they had very specific social ties. Trusting others seems to be an evolutionary strategy that served us well for a long time. In that evolutionary struggle, man was opposed to a 'natural enemy', the environment and all it contained. All he had was his bigger brain to compensate for his smaller strength and speed; and, of course, his network.

Since the invention of agriculture, we began to lose our Ice Age edge. We were no longer opposed to the natural world out there as the sparring partner, we were, instead, opposed to a culture that was created and directed by pathological individuals, including psychopaths. At the same time, this outer world that was shaped by pathology, began to anchor itself within normal humans - they not only lost the ability to see pathology in individuals that look like themselves - an intra-species predator, they became like their pathological leaders. Humanity's failure to perceive this, to adapt, means that our inner world, taken into us from the outside by means of identification, has become an 'independent power' which, in its turn, by means of projection, is our own creation. After all, it is normal humans, not pathologicals, who have the real power to 'create reality' as a group. Pathologicals only influence us - mostly women - to believe certain things are the norm, and we then act as they pull our strings.

This outer reality which has such a powerful influence on the formation of our character and the focusing of our creativity, has become a power itself and we are being challenged to become 'new beings' that can evolutionarily adapt to dramatic changes. Either we become fully pathological, in which case there will be no stress (which is the option that most of humanity seems to have chosen), or we return to our roots taking with us the knowledge of the new 'opponent' that will enable us to rebuild our social bonds and structures and survive through the massive changes that are ahead of us.

Because, realistically, even if no cataclysmic scenario of any external kind manifests, anybody with two neurons firing can see that we are most definitely heading straight into a 'clash of civilizations' though it is not at all what is being touted. It is a clash of normal humans with pathologicals and right now, they have all the assets (which they have by trickery, cunning, cheating). Even the mildest scenario of the future is not pleasant to contemplate: Climate Change and its effects on humanity? That, alone, will kill billions. Then add the diseases that will strike a weakened human race (and are already doing so, though the big pandemic is still ahead of us). It's not a pretty picture.

This principle that our inner world is taken into us from the outside by means of identification, and then, by way of projection, alters the external world so that it corresponds to the inner world even more closely, requires some serious thought. Basically, we have to bootstrap ourselves out of here by reversing the process: we must create an inner world in the face of the opposition of the outer world, that then becomes strong enough, EN MASSE, to change the outer world. An inner world that recognises pathology in power across the world, and all that it has wrought, for what it is, which then provides the resolve to do something about it.

But too few people are doing it. I had hopes 17 years ago; I have none now. In fact, I'm only writing this because I feel duty bound to speak the truth; I have no illusions that enough people are listening or even care to make a difference.

As I said, we evolved to trust one another - but that was a world where others were trustworthy. We live in a different world now. The cheaters in our world have evolved ways to induce us to trust them, but too few of us are capable of accurately assessing our environment, too few of us realize that we are in mortal peril.

It is, of course, remotely possible that those who are able to accomplish this task of rebuilding social connections based on the new evolutionary standard of accounting for pathology in the equations, will evolve and survive if they can last through the next two years. Those who do not evolve will perish. No rapture, Jesus or aliens; no cavalry to the rescue; no ascension to the 5th dimension; no waking up of humanity and playing nice in the sandbox.

It's pretty much over for the human race as we know it. 2012 is the End of the Old world and its possibilities and the beginning of an interregnum of open psychopathic rule that I predict will last about 2 years before the horror of the situation sinks in. After that, life will only be possible for those who are prepared to survive in the real New World and to figure that out, you are on your own now.

That's our Ice Age brain assessment of the environment. That's what I see from where I sit. Take it or leave it.

Laura Knight-Jadczyk is a seventh generation Floridian, a historian/mystic and author of 14 books and many articles published in print and on the internet. She is the founder of SOTT.net and the inspiration behind the Cassiopaean Experiment. She lives in France with her husband, Polish mathematical physicist, Arkadiusz Jadczyk, four of her five children, extended family, eight dogs, five birds and a cat.

A couple of years ago, I found myself in a situation where I thought for sure that it was THE END for me. Right when I had almost given up, something inside of me, that LOVE feeling, took over me. And not only did I recover, I ended-up fighting back and realized they didn't have a chance.

"I read in the news this morning that some video game developers started a $400,000 pledge drive to fund their new video game. In just 24 hours, they had collected more than they needed: They got 1.4 MILLION!"

They probably had a scenario going whereby non-Americans could pay by cheque. Why hasn't anyone answered my other post about this?

#3 isn't very appealing if one has seen anything about those nuc's we dropped on Japan.

#1 is better than #3, but me no likey too much cold, if when properly prepared for the winds that blow that bone chilling air in your face.

So, I would prefer option #2, the cometary bombardment. Maybe it's the gambling aspect, Wall Street would love to play those odds and all the world could take bets as they descend from the skies as fireballs from space. It's so Hollywood afterall, perfect for our 'end of the world as you know it' party! For in our 'dumbed down' bizarro world where finding anyone even remotely willing to 'look outside the box' and investigate the data for themselves, perhaps the best they can hope for is some 'fun' before it all goes away, as if it was never really here to begin with. There really isn't much you can do for them, family and friends, coworkers and fellow students. They just don't have any interest in anything you say. Sad for us, but not for them, as they usually find our running exposition a bore. Again, learning to remain unattached so that 'they' don't drag you down.

the first major global event will be the utter, final systemic failure of the paper ponzi scheme more often refereed to as the global economy. it's already happening, most people either don't recognize it, or refuse to acknowledge it. if you have ever seen the charts mapping the progression of debt from 1970 to 2012 it becomes strikingly clear that our supposed golden age of wealth was never really anything more than a cheap credit driven illusion. that we now measure debt, planet wide, in numbers that have zero piratical application elsewhere just highlights the absurdity of it all. equally absurd is the idea that DC can somehow "fix" this if only we get the right R's or D's, the right party in the white house and congress. no, my fellow Americans, it's time we all admit and face up to the simple truth, Washington can't fix the economy, and worse still the politicians know it, any chance we might have had went by the boards in 2008-2009 when there was a choice to be made, go the route of Iceland, suffer more in the current and probably mid term but come out stronger a few years later, or do exactly what Washington did. kick the can, paper over the problems, package it up with a nice "things could have been a lot worse" bow on top and have the MSM sell it to the public as a recovery.

But it's not just the US, the great plague that is debt has covered the planet, the PIIGS are on the brink and if it wasn't for the ECB buying there junk sovereign debt, who knows what Europe would look like today. I have heard a lot of talk about peak this and peak that, but one thing I know for sure is the world has hit absolute peak debt saturation, especially in western economies.

To big to fail, to big to bail out, that is where we are right now, so the only choice left to the PTB's is extend and pretend for as long as possible, a broke nations, or a group of the same, ability to borrow from other uber broke nations is now presented as a sing of economic growth and stability. the markets rise and people believe that everything is going to be alright because green is good and red is bad. meanwhile the MSM gives print to all those crazy civilian "preppers" who are turning there homes in 2012 doomsday camps while conveniently ignoring the biggest preppers of the all, our very own various central governments. they know the end, at least in an economic sense, is not far off and they are absolutely gearing up for it, hence the updraft of wealth, the ever increasing control of resources, the ever expanding police state.

because once the economy goes, once the mall zombies and the "that can never happen here" sheep get blindsided by the fact that their credit card doesn't work and the enforced by people with guns bank holidays mean you no longer have 24/7 instant, anywhere access to your FRN's and then even when you can make a withdrawal it is limited to say $500 a week and that $500 gets you a loaf of bread and a tank of gas, well, to quote Steven King from The Stand...

"everything falls apart, when the center does not hold" and right know the center is being held together by hopeium, propaganda and a whole lot of counterfeit paper. but for how much longer? beware the PIIGS of March, I think that is where the end begins, the first dominoes to fall. once that contingent starts spreading it's time to grab the bug out kit and head for someplace less populated, the battle for LA or New York will be epic but best viewed from a far vantage point. who knows? maybe I am crazy and paranoid, or maybe the Mayans were on to something...either way we'll find out soon.

Your frustration is made very obvious. Donating money to ensure the continuation of this site and the sharing of its information is relevant but not enough to make the necessary evolutionary changes required.

Even if we are all informed and even if we revolt, this society is in no way prepared to take on the masses nor will it ever be successful in doing so. We can stand-up for what we believe in, what we feel is right but in the end if humanity is destined to parish then it will do so regardless of the efforts put forward by those who saw it coming and tried to do something about it.

I do hope my frustration is obvious; and no, it's not about the money: it's about humanity bringing on its own destruction by falling out of the stupid tree and hitting every branch on the way down. And I don't mean present company here. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but some days, ya know, your just read something that brings it home so hard. Actually, it wasn't even about the game fundraiser. That hit my mailbox after I had written all of the above so I just tucked it in. It was reading Dave McGowan's piece and then having a look at that school sex scandal out in California. Of course, the prospect of another Bush in the White house, and possibly Hitler in Spike Heels Sarah did NOT cheer me up a bit.

I've often asked myself had I been on the Titanic and had known that the ship was sinking what would I have done? The only answer that I can live with is that I would have perished trying to do the best that I could to ensure that some of the youngest and most innocent had a chance to go on. No movie would have been made of my life and I would be ashamed to even think that my name was etched on some wall of "heros". Simply doing the right thing is enough.

I have a job now and the only way that I may be in service while living in this purgatory of inevitable destruction is to keep funding this small beacon in the distance however futile that may appear to be. If my last gasp of breath witnesses this glimmer of light in the distance as the storm wave drowns me I will have known that I died well, as did I live for having fueled that fire.

Laura, you are the lightkeeper. That is your job. Mine is to support you in any way that I can. For now I can only send you money. But that is my dream, for in your neediness you are helping me to live well. In better times I could see myself meeting you, living with the SOTT team and becoming a part of your family, so to speak. Alas, I feel that window has closed never to reopen and I weep at the thought that I never met my people. But it is enough to know that you exist. For I was lost on this planet until I "met" you through your writings. As corny as that may sound, it is the deepest truth that I may put into words. I feel honored that I may send to you the fruit of my labors and that you willingly accept such.

Never a day goes by when I do not reflect on the immensity of your contributions. I am a better man for this and am proud to know of you. You are a beacon in my heart which will sustain me to the very end and through to beginnings in other worlds.

Just better than six months ago we figured former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, with Palin being re-selected as his running mate emerging as the 2012 GOP ticket. With hindsight being 20/20 we now know that the incumbent will be going up against Romney/Ryan. I have no doubts that pair will turn out to be as equally precarious.

I have to say that I have always been a huge fan of you (Laura). You are one the most central researchers in my personal vocabulary and collection, and I own nearly everything you have ever written for commercial sale.

And I agree with you about the state of the collective mentality. I watched a friend of mine playing a popular online game recently and observed two people arguing about whether South Park was becoming "lame" - and all I could think about was how much actual knowledge, literature and history was being neglected by this shallow, idiotic diatribe about the lack of merits of South Park. It's McNuggets on the McBrain it seems.

But then I remembered something of equal importance - free will.

Laura, I think you've gone off the deep end a bit with this post. You've forgotten the importance of free will - and you've certainly alienated much of your actual readership (those people who have been the pool from which the donations you do have came). In essence, you're saying (in this post) that because you aren't getting money from your readership, then the world is going to hell in a hand basket - thus implying rather strongly that if any given reader does contribute then things will end up ok.

That is exactly the same kind of tactic that the users of propaganda exercise, e.g. You're not a patriot if you wouldn't send your son to war to die (for bankers). Same tactic.

Again, I am a huge supporter, and I have resonated with just about everything you have ever written. And I too have become so incensed and angry at the seeming lack of intellectual values throughout every strata of our society as to express that rage with great strength of words and ire. But it boils down to this - if humanity as a collective chooses an ill fate, even through a process of discernment defined most singularly by complete festering ignorance, this is still free will being preserved.

My opinion is that it will never happen. It never has, and it never does. Because people do fight back in the end. And it always looks very dark before the dawn - but that's how we like our stories. We like to sit on the edge of the theater seat with white knuckles sweating - so that we feel like we got our money's worth for the show.

There are many logistical reasons why such a system of control simply cannot work. There is only one being anyway, so in reality, all these other people who have their heads in the sand are really aspects of yourself. Free will dictates that all of "us" get to choose how we employ our consciousness - certainly including yourself in writing whatever you feel like writing. However, there are certainly some empirical dynamics which come into play.

Regardless of your worldview, your belief system, etc - my main point here is that to go after people with the hammer of "The World is going to end" (this year!) because people support a video game project and not Sott - well, it's a temper tantrum and it's a move that is unclassy and is an energetic violation of the Law of Attraction (to your detriment). It's an extreme non-sequitur because whatever happens to the world due to some ascribed and judgmental pronouncement of immiment doom is in no way directly related to the fact that Sott has not received more donations - this verbiage reeks of manipulation. And it's only been a few days since the fund raiser started.

I would imagine that this post has reduced the amount of donations you would have otherwise received - that's the irony. By definition those who are reading your site share your opinions, to one degree or another - therefore, carting out the guilt-trip wagon - and doing so to such an extreme - only alienates those who are already supporters.

"you're saying (in this post) that because you aren't getting money from your readership, then the world is going to hell in a hand basket - thus implying rather strongly that if any given reader does contribute then things will end up ok."
You don't get it rkestler. The bottom line is that people are more interrested in fantasy than in the true world as it is evolving before our eyes. The best way to be prepared is to be informed. SOTT gives the clues or what may happen in the very near future based on the data collected today. If things happen and you're prepared because you know, you have more chances to survive and to know what to do at the right moment. Things do not happen because you know them or not, but how you react does.

Indeed, Laura did not in any way imply that people donating would "save" the world.

So why do we, those of us who care to, do so? It's principle, it's choice - that "free will" you mentioned. People can choose to join in spirit the process of the decay and death of this old world and of the collective future of most of humanity - or, if they care to, they can support the few who care enough not to put their heads in the sand, but instead try to help inform the few who might actually listen.

Money donated won't "save" the world - but it might help inform a few, and so give them a better chance for the future that awaits.

In short, I interpreted Laura's post as saying, more or less: "Anybody home in there? Got any real, genuine principles to really take a stand for?"

For most people, the answers will be "No, and no - I care for nothing besides a little bit of short-lived bliss and comfort for myself. Now, I must be off to play video games, or watch TV, or, or...!"

"In essence, you're saying (in this post) that because you aren't getting money from your readership, then the world is going to hell in a hand basket - thus implying rather strongly that if any given reader does contribute then things will end up ok."

No, she's saying that the world is going to hell in a handbasket one way or another. But by donating to SOTT, you're adding energy to those who are striving to help as many people survive and learn the Truth as possible. SOTT can't save the world, but it can help many people to save themselves with knowledge of what's happening, what is likely to happen soon, and what can be done to protect yourself, your family, your friends, and to possibly create a better civilization in the aftermath.

Knowledge protects. When there is real and present danger, knowledge becomes even more vital. Adding your energy to distractions rather than to groups that work to the benefit and health of as many as possible while the world is burning is the very definition of insanity.

Forewarned equals forearmed. Knowing about psychopaths, the sorry state of affairs of our civilization, as well as natural disasters, is the only thing that will help you save yourself and your loved ones, and be able to avoid the mistakes of your ancestors as you are restructuring a new world.

The more people involved and aware, the more people capable of critical thinking and paying attention, the more people that have deprogrammed themselves enough to be able to network and love others, the better the outcome when the shit hits the fan.

And right now the sott team is in dire need, so how can you say it is not a worthy cause, perhaps the only worthy cause to add money/energy into? There is still hope to bring this knowledge to a lot more people, which can only benefit them in the years to come, so why not help make that happen?

Actually, my point is: NO, there's nothing I can do to help the situation - it is what it is and donating isn't going to change that. I'm not your guru and the truth is, there ARE NO GURUS that can change anything!

As for your free will... well, yeah, there is free will and then there's karma. You have free will at some level, at some point, and then you start getting karma and karma trumps free will because it was your free will to enter the karmic wheel. And that's only true for about half of humanity. The other half have neither free will nor karma - they are just meat sacks, machines.

What poll did you take to determine that Laura has "alienated much of her resadership"? If you do indeed have much of her literature, then you must know all about wishful thinking. Perhaps you should review.

"In essence, you're saying (in this post) that because you aren't getting money from your readership, then the world is going to hell in a hand basket - thus implying rather strongly that if any given reader does contribute then things will end up ok."

I didn't get that impression at all. As is with all of her work, this article was rather well researched and thought out. Such things would not have been said if there wasn't anything substantial to back them up, critical and careful observation being one. It is plainly obvious that at this particular juncture, we are all the edge of a precipice of some kind or another, besides; what is she going to do with her contributions from the readers once we are all obliterated within the next dozen years or so? ...Too bad our free will seems to have no effect on Nature's agenda.

"Regardless of your worldview, your belief system, etc - my main point here is that to go after people with the hammer of "The World is going to end" (this year!) because people support a video game project and not Sott..."

Again, you are way out of your element, Bro. It would seem that you need to re-read this article, and more carefully!

The SOTT Video Game, a journey thru social agendas and world devastation. The Player gets to choose what type of situation they dwell in and figure out a solution to resolve the bad condition. I better get to the Patent website.

While this sounds almost facetious it might not be a bad idea really.
A reality based world game; something like what Bob Altemeyer did with his groups of high- and low- authoritarian followers as he detailed in his book, "The Authoritarians."

I often get the same feeling of despair when talking to people around me, they either don´t get it at all, or there´s some "yes, but..." as a reply. They just don´t seem to be able to see where we´re heading to, and so they see no need to change anything about themselves.
In the last few weeks I started reading Mouravieff´s Gnosis Books. His words about the need for a new elite already made me pessimistic (as he was writing it almost 50 years ago), because there seems to exist nothing of that kind right now. Also it seems the situation is far worse than it was back then. Seems we´re truly headed for the deluge of fire.
I know it doesn´t change anything for the better, but I want to personally thank Laura, Ark and the whole team at sott for their efforts, their persistence against all kinds of attacks for trying to bring the TRUTH to all of us. So to everyone coming to sott.net, if you feel the same way, DONATE! Don´t take these things for granted, because tomorrow it could all be gone.

They have wanted fantasy - "reality" is the first fantasy. Those who seek truth, knowledge, and information - such as myself or yourself, participate by gravitating towards and reading the works of someone like Laura, Ark and Sott. Those who want fantasy do whatever it is that they choose to do for fantasy.

I agree also with Dr. Zoidbergh - if you like Sott, and you are of a mind to, then you should donate, as is your choice. But donating or not does not constitute a sign of the demise of the world. It simply means that less people are willing to donate to Sott, or that less people are in the readership of Sott. The problems of the world certainly do not hinge on the popularity of Sott, and yet, I would personally agree that many would benefit from reading the work of Laura Knight-Jadcyzk, as I have stated many times to those I know who are of a mind to enjoy such works of excellent investigation.

And because I have the same tendency to "kick over the hotdog stand" to try to get people's attention, I understand why this post was written and in what spirit. However, I still believe it is not the best way to go about encouraging donations.

To state that the problem is that people prefer fantasy to truth/information implies that you think people must change. This is the process by which the revolutionary becomes the new dictator. Consider the French Revolution for an example of that dynamic in action. Why must others be as we are?

For some real truth (within the self) is found through the process of experiencing fantasy - just as you are experiencing your own chosen fantasy when you read this site, as mosaicvic poetically and cleverly illustrated. Ultimately, all truth must be realized and known within the self anyway, regardless of its perceived or mechanized origin.

i have send R100.00( rands) in a greeting card today.
the post office tells me it will take 10 working days to arrive.
i would like to send some more money this way,but there are many corupted officials working on oliver tambo airport and many peoples belongings and post gets stolen via orginazed crime.
is there a way for me to know that u have received the donation?
if this can work i will donate this way whatever i can and as regularly as possible.
greetings from south africa

well the first one went with no name,but there should be a postage stamp referring to point of sending.that will give me a clue .what i understand and did is,if u can not use the international system (paypal.etc),just send some money in a greeting card...so i hope it lands there,i want to do it again..

When I donated last Friday, I was thinking that at that very moment there were video games and what-not funded into the hundreds of thousands or millions on certain funding sites--while the SOTT fundraiser was moving only incrementally. Another example: a comedy webcomic has acquired just over 1,000,000 in funds. Yes, a webcomic. About role-playing games.

It seems all people care about are games. No surprise, but it is tragic.

In any case, I suppose I prefer the ice age option. I've always enjoyed the cold.

Funny...I just tried to post on a blog, that I thought was "aware and awake", that I had "vision" (a phenomenon that is new to me) that humanity has received an F. We have failed to reach critical mass. The next vision was a clear warning of major catastrophes with much loss of life.

I didn't share this vision so as to profess to be a "visionary" but only to point out that the "LIGHT" won't save humanity... we humans are directly responsible for that. We have to confront the status quo even in our personal lives...our families...to stop the sickness within the human race. It seems that too many people feel that they still need to be accepted or fit in and refuse to confront the bullying and competition in our own backyard. No one or nothing is coming to save us.

Needless to say..my post was not allowed.and this is not uncommon

I have suffered much and lost many people due to my own refusal since a child to believe this behavior is acceptable. In fact it put a target on my back. Not one person in my life...not one...will even research things that I have discovered about the real "truth" of this world.They listen to Main Stream news and refuse to take responsibility for changing things. Many just don't care. They don't think anything is wrong. Yes I live in Canada where things aren't as bad as other places...but how can they think this is how the world was meant to be.

I have chosen to live in isolation in peace with my peaceful animals, rather than partake in what I perceive as the craziness of society.

Thank you for publicly saying this Laura.. our priorities are so messed up. I am so sorry as I know the work and passion that SOTT has put in, in order to get the truth out.

"Not one person in my life...not one...will even research things that I have discovered about the real "truth" of this world."

and while it is much the same in my world it's not quite as bleak as you make yours out to be.

Even so, I have a crew of essentially New Age Love and Lighters, as well as a few right-wing high authoritarians who INSIST that guys with box cutters commandeered airplanes and knocked over WTCs One and Two.

WTC Seven presents a bit of a problem, but guess what, there must have been a fire . . . And these are otherwise intelligent people.

The whole thing is as astonishing as it is disheartening.

So, I've decided to take a bit of a different tack and invoke Ken Wilber's notion that when push comes to shove, real compassion kicks ass.

And I can kick ass, so I'm gonna.

Not that I expect it'll do a lot of good but at least I'll punch far enough through some of the stupidity that those with fantasies will perhaps at least think twice before telling me I'm a credulous "conspiracy theorist."

The matter here is a friend who for years has been ragging on and on about the invalidity of "conspiracy theories" and doing so on the basis of simply stupid arguments. I'm tired of that, in fact I was tired of it a long time ago so pretty soon I'm just going to have to hand him his rear end . . .

Hi I'm from Indonesia, and new to your website, but have found this site to be quite interesting, as we're now in THE year 2012, I myself have been interested with not so many other 'worldly' things, other than the quest for Truth, and Truth only.

I would like to be able to donate some of my money (even though I'm only a 30-yrs old young lad here),
but in the donation page I notice it only accepts US dollars and euro,
will it accept my donations if I pay via credit card (Indonesian's VISA card)?
need quick info on this one.

thank you,
and please, don't/never give up,
because the Truth needs to keep being spread out and preserved,...no matter what.

I get over being stressed and carry on reporting my findings on a number of topics that are very relevant. And I continue to assess it as highly probable that if enough people have enough knowledge, it will make a difference and I do my damndest to get it out there. That's what.

So i understand that all of us so called "sheeples "genetic link to our creator is all coming to a showdown? The 99% who were geneticaly created by our alien gods to be the docile beings that he in his wisdom designed, are still at the mercy of previous attempts at cloning the perfect human being. 1% of our gods attempts where hijacked by the so called "devil" .So since the begining of all time the 1% Wolves are still manipulating the rest of us 99%.Unfortunately for the multi generations of sheep that live in the centre of the pen, they will never see what us sheep close to the fence see, ie open fields, food & freedom..We are all bleating close to the fences,but the ones in the centre do not hear! Is this where we are at in 2012? What plan has our creator in mind for us all? 99 sheep will never be able to "down" the one wolf surely? So the present conditions must surely carry on as it,s always been since the beginning of creation. We must accept that our genetic engineering was all in the plan, & have faith in the "good alien" that he will see fit to finally rid of us of his, or his enemies lab work. We can bleat all we like, but i have faith that the sheeps mind will evolve to a very different dimension, and will eventually defeat our very oldest enemy. Thank you very much sott for all of your informings over the years, your website amongst many others are relaying data from the fences of our pens to the masses that frequent the centre. & i,m pretty sure that the masses will eventually understand & become spiritualy alive in the changing of our frequency on route to changing our dimension. Long survive our alien creators who purposefully designed the
99% of us, but made a huge error by leaving behind 1% of his mistakes, to create all manner of confusion here on this beautiful planet. Kind regards Dave Bates

Hi Laura, Good question! I enjoy a fag, & the history of the world has far too many words for me! I guess that the history of the universe places us as " short story in the making" kind regards Dave Bates

In Political Ponerology, it is said that propaganda could be made to work backwards. I think games are a great medium for this. Anyone will play a game, no matter how silly it seems, as long as it is fun. I think that is human nature. If learning is fun, then the SOTT videogame should be all the rage!

The game development studio - Double Fine - had no funds to create another 2D 'point & click' adventure game, which can be compared to a cartoon, only the player controls the actions of the cartoon-protagonist in the story.

They estimated that $300K will suffice developing a new game. Also because the money comes from gamer donors, they decided to film the whole development process, which in their estimation needs another 100K. So they put the fundraiser on kickstarter.com.

Guess what happened? There seems to be 60,436 mindless, fun loving, fantasy world loving automaton in human form, who gave from their earnings to create the ultimate illusion. Also some of them must have had sweet nostalgia about the successful games of Double Fine in the past.

The developers asked only 400K. So far the craziness of "fans" reached such levels that 60,436 of them donated $2,019,092 and still 22 days are remaining from the donation drive.

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The developers promised all donors can watch and will have a say in the development process. There has been nothing like this before, the famous company boss Tim Schafer admitted it could go totally wrong or the development can turn out a success.

Do you need better proof, that the majority of people despise truth being to painful to listen to and watch and they prefer the sweet illusion of complete fiction?

Already other game developers jumped on the bandwagon to follow the first. All of them had great successes in the past. No wonder fantasy-loving people did not change.

Reading the blog of another successful developer, who had a great idea as an amateur and no became a professional realizing his idea earned 10+ million dollars. I can't see a shred of acknowledging objective reality in his writing and his post tells a lot about his (at best stagnating) character development.
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SOTT could also try crowdsourcing. SOTT could have some crowdsourcing program that would gain income when people chose to play it. It could have to do with reading articles, sorting forum posts perhaps. If you want to know about crowdsourcing, look up the TED talk about Duolingo.

There are more stories in comments than the story - is this a mass confessional?...and does that mean SOTT closes up shop and leaves the world to its well earned rest? I mean why not just give-up now and let the anesthetical cold just flow over us and freeze our energies a until the thaw!

I mean is this article the last ditch statement of affairs and SOTT will go into slow hibernation with squalls of more MSM pulp which litters the pages of this site from every paid for blurb machine and every bought-out alter-news?

Do us real people a favour please Laura, dump the crap and get on with the real stories and leave the doomsday ode to the pseudo preachers and their ilk. If we are going lets go with important issues and leave off Reuters-WashPost-Daily Pail-Guardian-Telegraph etal and of course Alternet and the other rear gunned alters who pretend they know an iota.

Its not that I for one dont believe you, or in you or what you are trying to achieve...its that I have to go through all the crap to get to the meaningful stuff and I for one would like you to hold on to dignity and objectivity even in the face of the previewed rather long to endure pathological rapture that is in store for us.

Its no good just us being followers we all have to lead when our moment comes(you can all work that one out for yourselves) I lead my life and I say what it is I want within the realms of possibility - I am not in the centre but on the peripherals which I long time ago chose...to escape you have to use more than your intelligents - you have to shape a life where there are alternatives - safe houses and moves on the board.

If people are that afeared then get to making changes pretty darned swiftly because when everyones back is up against the wall, there aint going to be no help - as Laura said "your on your own"--------except for those in brotherhood.

As John Stuart Mill has written, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. " At a time like this Laura expressing her dissatisfaction should serve as another alarm clock to all of us. Each of us can do more, can act with more integrity. Thank you for each stand for Truth that you make Laura!

Sobering assessment indeed. Yes the huge bulk of the population is indeed more besotted by the sports results, or which pathocrat will lead the puppet government this time than evaluating the possibility of their own non survival. The truth is ugly, confronting, requires real analysis and the seductive hiss of the serpent is so much more appealing.

But what of survival, already some say 25% of couples are infertile, even if things did continue as they are our frantic overuse of antibiotics, vaccinations, prescription drugs, genetically modified food, factory farming the list goes on... All this threatens to result in a mutant race incapable of reproducing, eating or living without constant technological intervention. On that basis the end of humanity could almost be seen as a mercy.

When things are nice and easy, and for most in the west at least it has been until recent times, we rapidly do fall into sloth, self indulgence, ignorance and even self destruction, all fueled of course by a corrupt mainstream media and its primary tool of subversion, television. Only have to see the behaviour of young women, drinking themselves into a helpless stupor on a Saturday night out, this would once would have been unthinkable. Why, because they feel no sense of a future, or of identity or purpose. Nevertheless strange as it may seem, human beings (well some anyway) are capable at times of amazing feats of endurance, suffering and self sacrifice. It can be said that the best only comes out in people when things are at their worst. Who said it "when the going gets tough the tough get going" and it is clearly going to get very tough indeed.

In the end the diamond only became a diamond because it survived all the intense heat and pressure that could possibly be thrown at it.

Laura, your frustration is warrented, and justified, and sadly, your assesment [ a reflection of my own solid formed opionion of the last few years, thanks for the ego boost there!] is accurate to a T. Time foer changed passed at my parent age [im 33] and my generation have grown up and any of us with firing neurons have been aware that somewhere along the line, something was taken from us. Our chance to shape the world, as promised by culture, was never given. And was never GOING to be given. the current psychopathy is at a frenzied peak of self delusion that i think must have set in back in the 50's: pehaps the bomb triggered a change in intensity.. whatever it was, they NEVER intend on relenquishing power, and they fully intend on enslaving us with out the need for chains and whips, or something obvious to direct at. They used our own gulibillity. our own ego. Now we have noone to blame, and wonder where it went wrong. While not actually attempting to DO anything about it, because ISNT THAT SOMEONE ELSES PROBLEM?
We are a doomed society: lets hope enough survive to start again, and this time, lets remember these wolves in sheep clothing, and oust them into the impending cold.
Thank you for your bravery, and your frankness. It's remarkably refreshing in a time of soooo much bullshit.

I can understand the frustration of the mass population supporting silly things, personally I wish all the artists would go back to struggling and doing what they love and not making millions doing crappy pop songs, movies and video games.

For the people who are aware and trying to grow, we will be supporting Sott.

The part about donations I think can be ignored for now, the type of people who come here may not be rich, but I'm pretty sure you will easily reach your goal in 4 months time.

I've always felt cataclysm or the break down of society as we know it would bring us all closer together in the end.

And to be fair to humanity, there have been a lot of psychopaths exposed lately, way more than I've seen before.

Dear Laura, as `luci`wrote above, expressing your frustration here is so much warranted and justified. There will be a lot of Sott readers, who will agree, because this is why we read Sott: that we are reminded on how things really are and not what we wish them to be. This is not a place to be comforted into donating or comforted within our own incapabilities. Sott.net is to remind us that nobody and nothing will come to help us out of the world we created for ourselves, except ourselves.

Yes, it seems obvious that nobody cares. This is exactly the reality I live in. In the last 5 years I have burned myself up in searching for those who might really care. I have met fanatic vegetarians, who accuse me of being fatal for the world, because I eat grass fed meat. I met several of those psychopathic women who do nothing all day long but manipulating others into downward spirals. When I tell others, that they could take magnesium for their burnout and sleeplessness, they call me an esoteric believer. When I point to Laura´s work they call me a hopeless doomsday case. This blindness seems unbearable in daily business. And my world is so tiny and protected compared to the public stance Laura chose to take.

Everything does worsens by the day and it will get much worse, exactly as Laura described it. I prefer to read exactly this, it helps me to cope with my own frustration and helplessness every moment.

And besides this, I have donated today and I cannot see any connection between us donating and Laura summarizing facts about the end of the known world and expressing her frustration too. These are different things. I don´t think that any of us readers is in a place to judge the emotions, Laura chooses to express.

All those readers, like me, who care that Sott.net and this work will prevail: please donate, as much as you can afford (and a tiny bit more :)

Laura, you are the most brave person, I ever had the change to learn from. Nobody and nothing ever had such an impact on my life than your work.

and your trying to convince us that "my point was not to encourage donations, it was to make it clear that donating isn't gonna change anything." does not sound very convincing at all. you see i had to learn it the hard way - and i"m thankful for it - to calm down and reflect on what one is about to say when you're angry. or frustrated. it works. otherwise you run the risk of sounding like a tyrant. and you alienate people and push them away. sure "first you got to get mad. mad as hell" i agree. but anger unleashed on friends or your "choir" can have a hell of a destructive effect. because even if all you're pontificating about from your high priestess throne of channeling land is true, isn't is also true that the C's said that the current powers that be will fail in their final efforts to implement total enslavement and destruction? didn't they say that the upgrade to 4D is a "natural process"? and that for some it will mean a short stopover in 5D? so what is all this panicking about?
i've read amazing grace, one of the wave books am now reading secret history of the world and i check sott.net several times a day for news and i think you guys are doing a pretty good job. but sometimes you guys just sound hysterical. and 50,000 euro so far is not bad at all. so maybe a thank you would be in place right now. you might also check out kickstarter.com and other crowdsourcing websites. might open you up to a new audience as well.

I've got a joke: A sheep's walking to a slaughterhouse and a kind girl stops the sheep and tells him not to go inside. The sheep says "what's all the panicking for, sheesh, I'm not a sheep I'm a mighty wizard and I'm going to ascend naturally to heaven when I get through here." That was the punchline.

A pig and a chicken are out for a walk one Sunday morning and strolling by a little diner they see a sign that says, "Bacon and Eggs - $2.00" (it's an old joke) with which the pig completely flips out and runs screaming down the street as fast as his four little feet will carry him.

The chicken doesn't get it but follows his friend and finally catching up with him blocks later breathlessly asks, " WHAT was all -- that -- about, it's just a brunch menu ? ?"

"Already thought about it. Trouble is, no one would play. I mean, come on... Farmville, or The SOTT Video Game? That's a no-brainer for the masses... in more ways than one."
- seriously? that's all you got? "no one would play"? wow how lame can you get? you know the answer between assuming something and KNOWING something? no? well maybe mrs. "i feel underwhelmed" can enlighten you then.
no one would play - isn't it a matter of making it interesting enough? what could me more fascinating to today's teenagers who btw at least here in the US all seem to be obsessed with the illuminati and conspiracy theories then to give them some REAL conspiracy shit that would blow their socks off to kingdom come AND educate them.
the question is not whether but how.

One of my dissociative vices from childhood is videogames, which I'm determined to free myself of. However, my talents and interests made me consider for a long time learning to program and making games. But as I've learned more, I could not bring myself to create yet another dissociation engine in a world that has too many.

That said, I also have wondered if there is any possibility of a really objective video game that would actually be worth the time spent playing. Something that would activate the childlike excitement of learning, perhaps, in those who can muster it. I don't know. At the very least, it might give organic portals and people who are dissociative a way to contribute, but I wonder if this is an STS way to think?

How about a game that teaches people research skills in a fun but serious way? After all, many or most of us have negative associations with learning formed in childhood. Laura once wrote that children should be allowed to explore the various subjects of learning as a form of play, because children learn through play. But most of us have been deprived of that sort of experience due to the public education systems in place which teach us to believe that rote memorization is learning, and that learning is therefore boring and almost useless.

Or, how about a game/games that illustrate how our mind plays tricks on us?

Just tossing out ideas, but I wonder if it is sort of like this question; Is it possible to make a cupcake that is actually healthy? Maybe there is, but it would require knowledge that maybe we don't have, and if the result is reinforcing an addiction to sweetness, what's the point? How do you make a game that is not addicting?

"I've got a joke: A sheep's walking to a slaughterhouse and a kind girl stops the sheep and tells him not to go inside. The sheep says "what's all the panicking for, sheesh, I'm not a sheep I'm a mighty wizard and I'm going to ascend naturally to heaven when I get through here." That was the punchline."

well according to the C's and laura we all might be going to the slaughterhouse. it's kind of difficult to predict where a comet will hit - last time i checked. well, but maybe you know how. so if that is coming for a large number of us - will panicking change anything here?

the point i was making is that she deliberately left out that one side of the story for the sake of some fear mongering. like years ago when she proclaimed on a radio show "bush will start nuclear war. take it to the bank". well ... ?

She said he'd "try" and start nuclear war. Well he did his best but he's not in charge. Nice try. If you have such a low opinion of SOTT then maybe it's time you moveon.org? She's just being down-to-earth and honest, the way she's always been. She's not sugar coating anything and you call it "panicking." Nope, just another wake up call. It's crunch time and the planet's hitting snooze.

I run my research, development and manufacturing business from my home and when I move ALL my friends ditch to Chicago for a month while I tear down, pack up and move 15 to 20 tons of heavy machine tools, delicate and expensive lab gear, books 'til I don't want to know from books, computers, printers . . . it's INSANE.

And then I spend literally months putting it back together again. It's a year before I'm back where I was and it costs more than I even want to begin to talk about.

Time it seems is short and full well do I understand what the prospect of a move might mean for A & L et al.

So hon' if you need ditch a gasket from time to time I,for at least one, -- get -- where you're coming from . . .

I understand your frustration. I also know it's just how you are feeling right now, and that you will continue to fight the good fight. What else do we have? I have three young kids and reading about the world is, well something I can take only in small doses. How many times do I need to read about the police state crackdown or Monsanto poisoning our food, or 6-year-old sex slaves or any number of daily and nauseating stories depicting the horror of a planet we live on? I appreciate the truth and I haven't found much hope in it lately. That's a tough dose to swallow. What world will my children be living in tomorrow, let alone two years from now. Or, if we somehow make it, 10 years from now? It is almost too much to bear. Almost. I know there is no cavalry "just over the hill", so why endure? Because I must. More than that--because I am. I am here. My children are here, my wife is here. You are here. SOTT is here--and so are the psychopaths. And that is the way things are now. But things change, and although I know they are unlikely to change for the better, I must find a way. Just as I know you must find a way and the others at SOTT must find a way. I check to see if there are updates from the C's and I know now, after reading and reflecting on your frustration, that I need not read anymore from the C's (not that I won't check, haha). It's up to me. I have to make the difference. Somehow. Someway. I have to dig down deep and find it in myself. To unstuck the cycle of deadness and feel something good inside myself--and let that drive my actions. I don't want to leave this planet and look back on this life as a wasted opportunity that cost not only me, but the people that I love. I have little time to prepare and the time of reckoning is upon me, upon us. I do know this, and I know I am far from alone in this--I will not give up. It feels good to know that whatever darkness of the deep I must face, either within or without, I am not alone in the struggle. The goodness to counter the shadow is enough to sustain me, sustain us.

I share Laura's despair and frustration completely. But am resolved to continue shining any light I can, anywhere I can, and flow with the universe as it does whatever it will do.

As far as the seeming lack of conscious beings on the planet, let me share a bright spot. I work with veterans and probably see dozens of new faces each month. I've yet to meet a veteran who's not fully aware of the true nature of the U.S. political system and military, the pharmaceutical cartel, banking scam, and religious organizations. None come in waving a flag and their most despised day is either Memorial Day, Veterans Day or the Fourth of July due to all the BS and trauma memory triggers. Even those who've seemed to be staunch patriots have ended up expressing their disgust with it all.

These veterans comprise 27% of adults is the U.S., which amounts to 57 million men and women who have no illusions about what's going on.

On the down side, though they are one of the biggest voting blocks in the country (who know how to shoot, no less), yet they still have to fight hard even to get a 10% disability rating for their PTSD ($100 / month) is glaring proof of the sham of America's "representative" democracy.

I just thought I'd add these facts to the gloomy mix. Who knows, a bolt of (en)lightening might end up thwarting the fascist take-over. But I'm not holding my breath--except when doing my breathing meditation (http://eiriu-eolas.org/), which I'm doing more often as the world marches into darkness.

Laura:
Just keep right on doing what you have been doing: Waking people up, however you can.
I am leaning towards a slow descent into Ice Age, some nasty plagues to boot, more wars and jackboots. A stew of trouble. I'll probably be picked up and indefinately detained, being high on thier list. I speak out too much.
Psychopaths have a weakness, and it has to do with wisdom.

Psychopaths may actually be a fail-safe self-destruct mechanism of humanity. When population exceeds the planet's carrying capacity, when waste and wanton destruction of the biosphere exceed certain levels, psychopaths increase in the population which is hard-wired to follow them, and voila! The Earth's problems solved.

Thing is, the Living System really doesn't care about humanity, per se, it only cares about the survival of the Primary Life Design Platform and that can survive in a bacterium, mold, cockroach, whatever, and the System can rebuild itself over the next billion years or so.

Certainly, evolution has provided a marvelous creature for the interface with spirit/information fields, but if it threatens the system overall, it will be taken out. And it looks like that is what is happening.

I'm not too sure about much of the other comments or the article itself, but from what I did read and can deduce, it sounds a lot like surrendering. Hopelessness. We need to realize that we can and will change our fate. It's never too late, although, the sacrifice will have to be greater the longer we wait. We have to remember that selflessness and sacrifices change the underlying tone of all. It shows our true commitment.

Last night I spent the evening re-reading your 2005 article, "The True Identity of Fulcanelli and The Da Vinci Code."

At the end of the article, you made this statement:

"In my partial autobiography, Amazing Grace, I have discussed, at some length, many of the surpassingly strange events that began shortly after I was born, and which have continued to the present day, that give evidence of the fact that there is, indeed, within mysterious groups, some sort of extraordinary interest in my existence and work. It is clear from the objective evidence that some of these groups do not wish to kill me, but most definitely wish to control me, while others wish to protect me and ensure that I succeed in some 'mission' of which I have very little conscious awareness, but apparently, am discovering in a satisfactory way 'one step at a time.'"

I would like to ask, (especially after reading this latest post on 2012), if you feel you have accomplished that 'mission' -- or if you're throwing in the towel?

I've read several similar discouraging posts on 2012 over at Clif High's HPH site, where he echoes your frustration and despair at the current state of affairs in the world. He seems to think it's all coming to a head this March. Well, we don't have long to wait, I guess.

I've always felt that SOTT.net was the last best "lighthouse of truth" on the web; your work has led me to Ouspensky, Fulcanelli, and others that have changed me so much as a person. So many of us reading this have you (and your sharing of the Cassiopaean transmissions) to thank for our personal development. I don't think this energy or information has been wasted, even if a "critical mass" has not been reached in the population of the world.

I hope you do continue to "do what you do." I believe in your mission, and appreciate the positive effect it's had on me, and many others like me.

Thank you, Laura. Despite what you may think, the psychopaths are not winning. YOU ARE.

The Cs said that what happens in the Solar system is reflective of what is happening on Earth, that as a mass consciousness, we DO very much create our reality - it mirrors us. That's what's been driving me crazy to try to convey: people, we need to deal effectively with psychopathy, clean up our act, behave civilized to each other, and that way the planet will reflect our responsibility and we won't have to go through all that stuff.

And I truly am convinced that such an approach would work. (Though it may now be too late. I've been trying to get this across to people for 17 years now.)

But psychopaths think they can create their own reality in an INDIVIDUAL way, taking no account of reality itself, and that is the conflicting element. Everybody has "your truth, my truth, his truth, her truth" and so on, and that is at the root of the mass of confusion. And that confusion is reflected back to us in our reality and what is coming upon us as a result. The more violent different groups behave toward other groups, the more "violence signals" are sent out into the cosmos attracting that violence to earth. (Where the body is, there the eagles will gather...)

And here I have to say that there is a huge difference between focusing on something with the intent to expose it and deal with it vs. concentrating on something and helping it along by either participation or just doing nothing but saying "oh well, that's over there - has nothing to do with me." The former attitude means paying attention to reality and doing whatever you can to fix things, to deal with your own stuff so that you behave better on the planet; the latter is the basic New Age error that has actually aided and abetted the destruction of the planet.

Ignoring what is going on because (as Barbara Bush said) your beautiful mind ought not to have to think about such things, actually contributes to it continuing because you are shutting out reality and not being response-able to life and the earth. (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)

I get letters all the time from people saying "oh, you just concentrate on the bad stuff... that's SOOO negative! Why don't you talk about good stuff?" Well, hell's bells! As long as the bad stuff is going on, talking about good stuff as though that is all there is amounts to lying, to covering up, to ignoring and shutting out reality. That is the very attitude that has brought us to this point.

People, we need FACTS and DATA and REALITY CHECKS, not that fantastic surreal world created by psychopaths where black is white, and you can rain democracy down on other countries along with bombs and phosphorous! As long as our leaders do this, we will face destruction of our civilization. It's as simple as that. And our leaders will continue to do it as long as the people let them. And until people get uncomfortable enough where they live, they will not stir against the leaders. And even then, about half the population of the planet are lacking certain spiritual attributes and will follow the leaders right over a cliff.

There's no Jesus to save you; there are no aliens who are going to beam anybody up; there is no magic pill; no magic formula, no "call to the aethyrs" or "cube of space", no rapture, no cavalry; no "disclosure" or "breakaway civilization", no "give peace a chance by meditating" or whatnot; there's just us, human beings, totally screwed up because we are infected with the poison of psychological pathology and until the MASSES of people get on the same page, nothing will change: the march toward destruction is inexorable and inevitable.

Aaaahhh...Ouspensky - In Search Of The Miraculous....how miraculous is the search - there are so many sad people on this page. Move on....everyone wants to tell their lifestory...nobody has come up with a decent comment yet, lots of chagrin and doom. Its sounds a lot like the cozy life tidal wave is touching further up the way and beginning to unsettle folks around here.

Here's a great example of people dealing effectively with psychopathy, cleaning up (the PTB's) act, and behaving in a civilized manner to each other. Leave it to the Irish! These folks may not be regular readers of SOTT.net, but they certainly have the right idea. And if they can do it, so can others.

Know who wrote that? Well, he wasn't kidding, either. And that was in 1983. We ARE getting very close to the edge now.

Laura: I hope you are wrong!

But there are a lot of indicators pointing to the possibility that you aren't wrong.

And I know that many in my group are quite aware of this and are pushing forward very hard to turn things around. They are actually DOING things to help people get back on their feet after experiencing little but suppression for all their lives.

So I am not ready to give up yet on the power of love.

When old stable data are invalidated, confusion results until new stable data are found and put in place.

So keep providing the world with new stable data! I consider it a more valuable activity than trying to demonstrate the validity of your own point of view. Who knows? Maybe you just need a new approach. Less defense, perhaps, and more attack!

Whatever you decide, there are many who will never forget the contributions you have made.

Laura, its a real possibility (rotting - couldn't reply to your comment [& it would be nice to be able to search and sort results by date too]), but we will stand with you and support you if they come for you. I hope we can find you...I've warned everyone since they sped the 1,000 page Patriot Act composed before the aluminum tube scam, and told them about all the other new laws et al that serve TPTB purposes.

I come back daily to Sott.Net for inspiration even though there is always more bad...but all the sites I visit have more of the same but on different topics.

Before I found LegitGov.Com and Sott.Net, and the stations DemocracyNow and LinkTV. I felt very, very alone and unable to figure out why I felt that way. I haven't felt that way since finding these resources. Now I've added MaxKeiser.Com, ZeroHedge.Com, King World News, Reggie Middleton, and a few others. The picture is focused and very, very clear now.

I have a best friend with whom we share our thoughts and time though we are really polar on a lot of topics. We share time with others who appreciate us, share their ideas and listen to our thoughts and facts. However, we just decided last night, that if we are treated with lack of consideration after sharing our time and energy, we will tell these people to lose our number and explain why. We don't have enough time in a day to give up our interests and activities. We don't need others with social psychopathic behaviors in our sphere (we are not talking about minor issues, more along the line that if you want our assistance, one has to participate as well).

Laura, you bring us up to speed on a lot of topics and encourage more research on our own. You have helped us to see more of the details...We, in turn, share our learning with others...

You, Laura, have been instrumental in getting the People/Sheeple of the U.S. in open discussion. PEOPLE ARE TALKING EVERYWHERE THESE DAYS. I used to start talking loudly in the grocery store check out line so people would have to listen. I used to be that no one said a damn thing, usually they didn't even move. THAT HAS CHANGED. People engage in conversation these days!!!!!

SUCCESS starts with conversation. THEN, we share the FACTS.
WE may still succeed in the end.

TO KNOWLEDGE. Then, on to ACTION!!! OCCUPY MINDS!!!
Laura, YOU ROCK!!!!!
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Arjuna didn't want to fight and watch his family and friends die in vain. Krishna said they were already dead. Arjuna fought. Dharma cannot be stopped, and karma is how it looks from here, for now.

Humanity in it's present form is already dead. You are not. The body must die someday. You cannot. If you understand Truth, your karma will work itself out as you do your dharma. The world does the same, as a manifestation of the same Self. The world does it's thing, bringing forth psychopaths and their ilk, and we do ours, fighting what is already dead.

If this body dies in the coming years from any of the possible scenarios, or others not mentioned, so be it. There will be suffering as there always has been. My task is to witness it with Compassion. If the body lives, then my dharma will be to do whatever task is laid before me by my karma.

In the case of the Ice Age, I anticipate lots of carrying wood, but not so much carrying water but instead melting ice and snow by the woodstove.

The task until then, given the two-years scenario of psychopathic rule, will be to shoot first and bury the dead later. No need for asking questions later. Those who would answer will probably be begging for food, so why not just save them from the trouble and offer a nice prayer while you relieve them of their mortal coil. If they are not prepared to face the collective karma of humanity, then they are already dead anyway.

I understand that you are being rhetorical to some extent, but not everybody thinks that way and it would be helpful if you wouldn't talk about shooting people; that's not the way to respond to anything except direct threat to someone's life.

I don't want to speak out of my place, in this highly charged situation, but,

Is the fire being directed at the reader since the fundraising began aim to provide an impetus to get people to donate and the worry is that not enough money is being raised or is some of it because if the money isn't raised then Laura fears for her immediate existence? I say Laura but I mean the crew... I have nothing against her, tough woman who is to be respected. But as I understand they might lose there house and the cohesion of there work/group which is very important to them not to mention the threat of the witch hunt against them from defamers and the lingering "cult" accusation from the law. In one sense reading Laura's replies here, she seems like she doesn't really care, she'd much rather be planning her retirement and she is doing a service to others and if they don't want it, then I guess that is that, but in another she seems terrified... That's just the impression I get.

I guess I am just a bit confused...

But I also guess that doesn't really matter, from an organisational point of view they need the money to have a secure future, either immediate or long term and they have a readership that should donate...

Just for the sake of sanity, is any of this for real or is it some kind of drive to separate the wheat from the chaff??

yeah, hopefully with implemented diet changes, the confusion erodes... Haven't had bread or wheat for about 8 weeks now... No sugar as well... Sugar for one has been top of my list for elimination...

High fat low carb diet is the way to go, but I have found conflicting information about some foods that SOTT says are good, others say bad and vice versa... An example is pork... I have read a couple of reviews about how pork meat isn't good for you, that one should only eat meat from ruminants... Now I haven't found wide spread scientific studies done on this so I don't know if it's true or not but to me it makes sense, the eating meat only from ruminants part... Yet I know pork is encouraged here for its fat content which I read is plastic in nature and not of the same quality as that found in cow, lamb or other ruminants... I have been waiting for movement on this front but so far it is slow in coming... For the mean time I try to stick with non-pork just to be on the safe side.

In your opinion is pork healthy?

Another one is honey, removed sugar and introduced a bit of honey into my life... Now here on SOTT I have read one review saying you shouldn't take honey and another stating the benefits of honey... Right now my mind is that, honey is healthy and should be included in the diet if possible as an occasional sweetener... But i don't know, am just a guy struggling with this food stuff...

So, in your opinion, is honey good or bad?

And oh, another thing I saw, in a Cs session, they said that you'll see the emergence of hermaphrodites...

Q: (L) So, we all selected certain bodies before we incarnated that would be prime for this programming?
A: Are you ready to be hermaphrodites?

Now I read somewhere that this is definitely not a good sign at all, more like an omen... Now that really got me scratching my head about that new half man half woman face painting of jesus that appeared... I wonder what its meaning was....

Anyways I get the impression that since the Cs don't place value judgements on things as "good" or "evil" that the information that is researched might be impaired as a result... I mean, it might be good in one perspective, but bad in another and it is not one size fits all...

Also I have read passing remarks about high fat diet with a problem with cannibalism but this was only in passing so I don't know if it is valid or not... But I also remembered that Cs remark about why is it that no matter what you tried, you couldn't lose weight... And since they don't place value judgements on stuff, I now wonder if it was an allusion to cannibalism...

So I do suffer from confusions about conflicting information and motives... Just struggling along in the mud I guess --- 3D living...

Oh I saw this fictional story, about some god who was sentenced to die and exiled to earth for 7 days to think about stuff, took some guy under his wing and this guy decided to throw insults towards this god and at this point I was expecting a whole load of smiting... But instead the god was like "yah, you are a human being and I really can't take offense from any diatribe you throw at me" or something like that....

So I hope you don't take offense. Not saying you are a god but that I don't mean any offense... I do know how much you hate stupid people though and am sure there is a whole load of stupidity in my questions...

Luke, you should NOT be making any major dietary changes without enough knowledge. If you haven't read all the books and studies -- if you don't have at least a good overview of the research -- you don't know what you're doing or why. This cannot be good in any endeavor. So do the required reading before making major changes to your diet. Read "Life Without Bread" (book and forum thread in its entirety -- where thousands of people have written about their experiences and experiments) and "Primal Body, Primal Mind" by Nora Gedgaudas, at the very least. "The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living" is another good book with lots of data and citations, as is "The Vegetarian Myth."

Asking for people's opinions makes little sense. There's a huge wealth of information on the Diet and Health section of the forum. Search for any questions you may have there AFTER having read the requisite material to have some knowledge base to start from.

lots of things that have not been said - those that have been said are only part of a story still untold and bit like the "never ending story"....if you go to France you meet the results of a revolution and the enclave of that morbid lot that destroyed the christian state of Russia....curious choice when there are fairer fields and warmer soulsto be found.

Everyone wants to complain and rebuke - where is the consciousness amongst you who claim to be learned and appraised?

Laura commented - Yeah, well I hope they don't forget what I am saying while I rot in jail which, if the past is any indication of the future, is altogether possible....

Where then is her consciousness about herself, especially when she delivers her sermons to the faithfull - suffer unto to Him ye little children or awaken to the next path.

So mankind has made it, right? WE have brought on our destruction... is this the message? Well, besides the fact that yeah, we are responsible for our own fate, there are still some points to put over the table. We didn´t deliberately behave to bring this situation about, we where rather sleeping under the spell of the illusions that were there even before we were born. Trauma based social engineering has been working for thousands of years previous for what we have before us now. Why "trauma based"? because traumas are used to erase our memory and to crate new personalities. I mean, even our thoughts are not our own, they have been created to control us. Language is our first enemy. If there´s anything worth to be saved it is not the humans we are now. We should save what we where supposed to be in the first place: an evolutionary being going upwards, but that can not be attained by keeping the vices we have embraced with this actual cultural structure. We have accepted all temptations in the form of comfort zones to become what we are now: an stupid being of stupid habits with an empty head and an empty life. No consumer will make it, only the man or woman that are capable of create their own reality with their own thoughts and their increasing power to do so... do you know any one like that? Me neither... THEY have almost succeed in their ancient plot, working little by little, century after century, waiting for this times to arrive. The call it the "NWO" but it is not... it´s just a cliche. To call the biggest of all genocides that is misleading. There are gods, indeed, and they are not very found of us by the way. How could they be? I mean, would you take a stupid human being to your house to save him or her? A being capable of breaking your own peace and order? An egocentric human who believes he is the center of all that is? But I think that we are as innocent for what is going on as the cattle is innocent for what they are, that is why WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP AND, AT LEAST IN REGARDS TO OURSELVES, BE HUMBLE AND CLEAR: WE ARE VERY, VERY STUPID HUMAN BEINGS... We are the property of the elite as we keep ourselves living in cities, inside the system and it is imperative that we keep ourselves ignorant of what is really going on... otherwise we better start to be ourselves and evolve once and for all and then we might come with solutions... but lets not deceive ourselves, the solution way not apply for keeping what we are now but for what we should be instead: free souls. There is no case in saving this stupid social structure.

In a way I agree with what you have to say if I understood it correctly. I mean from the moment you step foot on this world you are already on the back foot.. You get indoctrinated into systems that shape how you think and view the world before you even have a say, by the time the mental circuitry sets into place, it is pretty much "Good luck trying to change it." Even before that, in the womb, changes are already in effect that will play long lasting roles in your life...

There is a bit of "unfairness" written over that if you ask me, but then we don't have the full picture in our current state...

Then again, as far as I understand there is really no right or wrong way, guess anything goes in the universe... So maybe there isn't a sense of "fairness" or "unfairness". Just life and the choices people make and how other people and the environment react to those choices.

I mean, this is it, this is life at our level... We are in the thick of it.. This is what it's all about... Not some distant promised state of being but what we are experiencing right now... The struggle with health, relationships, social injustice and all the rest of it... Need I say the struggle to get donations, affect change etc etc...

This is it, then one day you die, go up to 5D land, get a review, make some plans and then come back for more... Maybe at a different level at which point this current level will be redundant... Maybe one day in the future, one of you might be looking back at a civilization just like ours with the same struggles etc and think "God, I was there once, weird! Now I am here looking at it from a different place"

Maybe the highly talked about state of being asleep, isn't to dissimilar than sleep at night. Come morning, or afternoon for some, you wake up... In the dead of night, in the deepest dream that you get drowned in, the one that you don't even remember when you get up in the morning, what would you do if someone in your dream told you, you were asleep? You are stuck in the confines of your mind, a formidable structure built for that specific situation at that specific time, so are you going to "Godify" yourself out of your mind and into waking up because you are a human being endowed with divine capabilities?

"Yeah, sure.... I guess some people can do that"

I guess at the end of the day, we are all in cages... Those lizard being are in "Lizard" cages and us human beings are in "human" cages... Guess life is about familiarizing ourselves with our cages... You have to admit though, nothing can have a greater power of illusion than the cage that is you, the images running in front of it can take on a power that knows no bounds --- I believe the trick is not to be taken in by them, could be wrong thoug... Plato's cave comes to mind.. Oh an interesting question, "If I get out of my cage, then where exactly am I?"

At the end what matters is dignity. People who is dying now, in the hands of the army, the police or the "terrorists", whether it be in the hands of "Good" or "Bad" people, there´s no difference, they are all going through some sort of torture which makes sure that no body goes unharmed or un-traumatized. For all of us plan "B" will be our best choice because plan "A" is more on the side of illusion.

No matter what we believe, words mean nothing at all. Our thoughts mean nothing either. If there´s a way out, it is out side of ourselves... at least, the "ourselves" we are being right now. Being free means being not what we presently are, but what we should be... Just consider this: all about our world is electricity. This is an electric universe, and we are being feed with anti-electric diet = acidosis. The best we can do for ourselves is to go electric in our bodies and be ready and able to house even more electricity... this may sound silly, just think about it and you´ll find out why are we so stupid... after all, the more electric we become the more oxygenated we get. We are being dumbing down through depleting our oxygen levels at brain level and, at the same time, our electricity is going down... There´s no solution to this world problems because, to start with, this world has no problem at all, is just us humans and what the PTB are staging for us to believe... annihilation is to go on abroad against the monster this society is... that´s all... What are we going to do? We have to take ourselves out of the game, that´s all, we maybe end over a not very nice perspective, what ever it might be, we will have to be responsible for ourselves and with our own hands rise what ever is left for us to play with...

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Basically, it is a bunch of academics and social critics talking about philosophy from the point of view of the matrix movies.... Some very interesting points some of which I think you'll find interesting.

SOTT has provided a service to everyone who wishes to visit, at their own convenience, at no charge. The information & knowledge that is offered can be used by the reader, passed on to others for their use, or discarded. All of that by the choice of those who visit. There is no one saying that the information & knowledge that is being provided by SOTT is a requisite for anything. It is your choice to visit or not.
Have you have taken a bit from SOTT? Perhaps learned some things you were not aware of? Found some viable & important information that is not easily available somewhere else? Information & knowledge that no one else seems to be offering?
If you have received anything from visiting SOTT, then it is my thoughts that perhaps giving a little bit back is a worthy effort on our part.
Take the time... If you are able, & have taken from what was given freely, to give back a bit & help SOTT continue to offer what others do not offer. Showing a bit of empathy to those who have given to you is not so hard. They have given their time & effort, & only ask for some assistance to continue to give. Your help in helping them give, will not go un-noticed, since the other option is not to help & give a little back... & perhaps then, there will not be a SOTT to visit.

Here's a great example of people dealing effectively with psychopathy, cleaning up (the PTB's) act, and behaving in a civilized manner to each other. Leave it to the Irish! These folks may not be regular readers of SOTT.net, but they certainly have the right idea. And if they can do it, so can others.

I understand Laura that this article has been written in one of your desperately frustrated moods and I'd say rightly so considering the bleak facts. I'd like to say however that it's evident from the opening paragraph and some of the following comments that some people here don't have much in the way of positive experience or understanding of computer games. This gap in experience seems to manifest itself in a dismissive, almost jealous myopia that I didn't expect from a news source I'd come to trust for open mindedness.

Now a game is a product, that is, the intended result of a creative endeavour. The quality, like any expression of human creativity is dependent on the care, intent, skill and effort of the creator/s. Just like anything else and depending on your particular criteria for judgement, this can range from artistic masterpiece to disposable trash.

Yes, a lot of games are churned out with the sole intent of addicting it's players (victims) and milking them for their money. A lot of games are made to make people happy, express an aesthetic, promote healthy social interaction, excercise critical faculties and provoke thought through meaningfull narrative. Double Fine, the studio mentioned at the begining of the article, has risen so much money on trust alone that they will use it responsibly. That trust is founded, as it should be, on their reputation for excellent past work.

Now, if games aren't your thing, that's cool. Each to their own. My recommendation would be to learn a little about the culture you're off-handedly dismissing in future. A taster, because I know you like reading so much:

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By the way. Games development is a complex, multidisciplinary creative industry employing the diverse talents of programmers, many types of visual artist, musicians, sound designers, level / content designers (virtual architects) and systems designers but to name a few. You do many dedicated people a disservice when you describe the long hard hours of work they do as being paid "just to hang out and write code."

No one is denying that a lot of talent and skill goes into making many computer games, as well as artistry in many instances. But you are completely missing the point that Laura was making.

After reading about the immense success of a fundraiser for a video game, and the more I thought about it, the more flabbergasted, horrified, disappointed and hopeless I felt about the whole situation. It is really utterly pathetic that so-called humans place far more importance in a triviality that is a video game -- a thing which is actually contributing to the world's demise -- than a source of information that could literally save humanity.

There are plenty of forum topics on the SOTT forum regarding the dangers of playing video games. I suggest you learn about it, and don't be one of those people who turns their back on the universe as it really IS.

It is useless need to sprinkle the reality of some sweet "glazing", the sugar being recognized as a poison for the human body. It is
just as much for our psyche...

Hard, hard, the reality, but to want to give it another color than his appropriate means forging dices, throwing some powder of sugar to eyes stunned by every human being who has the certainty that its life belongs exclusively to him(her), while it is nothing...

Our World is a big Disneyland, and I weigh this word!

"Rather than to stay within the limits of the nature and to learn from what we can observe there, he [Walt Disney] decided to build an enactment of the nature". [...] "the real imagination is inspired by the nature, the corrupted imagination turns away
from it". [...]

"These entities*, called also "governors" and the "authorities", feed on our inclination to prefer the simulations of the reality to the very reality and they amplify this inclination. By becoming ourselves insane persons within our own natural housing environment, stimulate the alienating influence of the mental parasites archontiques and we give it grip. We complete and we embody, in fact, the deviation which they introduce simply in our mental. We are totally responsible for our auto-illusion. Archontes is
only bestriding our insanity and our phantasmagoria."
*Archontes / Reptiliens / Lizzies

Other quotation:

[...] "The children who go to the school to learn how to read and to write are prepared well to learn but not prepared to be deceived as for the contents of what they learn, right?
Imagine that I how teach you to defuse, to repair and to go to raise the carburetor of Chevvy 57. What is rather easy because the human faculties are adapted to the learning by the example, by way of various phases, by teaching of his(her) successes and his (her) errors. I could, for example, let you badly position a breech and then make you realize your error and it correct. In these conditions, you would certainly learn to realize this operation. The capacity for the auto-correction is an innate line in our species and opened to infinite developments. But if during the process of learning deceive you deliberately as for certain parts of the system, as for the procedures or even as for the way a carburetor works first of all - what happens then? When the moment has just put into practice what taught you about a repair of carburetor, you go to fail. The experiment would be soiled by cheating. You would would been trapped and doomed to failure."

Here is for the World in which we live and what the situation is regarding its REALITY... In the Big Party which is committed, to have some "players" whose moral sense touches the self-abnegation can only be saving...

Certainly, these "players" can seem minority (as they were him always), in consideration of group those who play without even to know that they are a member of a scenario of game, but their simple existence is a light. And so much that this light will be, it will be. You are a light Laura, do not doubt it.

"In all your actions, made so that the Work is guided by the nature, just like the slow progress of metals in bowels of the Earth. And, in your efforts, be allowed guide by the real imagination and not the fantastic imagination ".

Although it arrives, we do not have to give up. Not at all.

Whatever are the difficulties... If a wall appears at us, it is then necessary to cross it.

Hello everyone!
Here are some my thoughts about the topic and I just knew I had to write it here,even if some of it is wrong.

Good question to ask yourself is ''How much do you love truth?'' I remember reading that on sott.net. Most people don't love thruth enough to be able to understand it or appriciate it, thus they don't have potential to make use of that knowledge. Knowledge is love is light.You must love truth/knowledge to start the path/the Work,and dislike the illusion/the lies.

That is the thing that is connecting us in this place,love for the truth. We, who are ready were drawn to this place like moths to the light(house) and if many others aren't it only means they aren't ready yet,they are still in caterpillar phase and they must eat alot before going through metamorphosis and developing wings to be able or want/need to fly up to the light.
It's their free will to do what they must to do,go through their lessons,live their illusions or play their games.

I tried to interest my family in information like that from sott.net and cassiopaea.org only to fail over and over again.Then I tried the same with my friend from highschool who is the most openminded person I know but i realised he likes drinking,gaming and going to colledge to much to even think of leaving that behind,he even openly said half joking that he likes living like that,(half numb and double as that drunk every weekend even if it is just illusion).So much for an open mind..
We can't force people to love the truth and more important it's their free will to live in a lie same as it's our free will to try and reach for the truth.

I also want to say that I already feel like a part of the group even though I'm pretty much new here although I've been reading sott and cass for few years.We shouldn't be worried about numbers cause quality counts more then quantity.I think what's important is that we are connected and others who are destined/preapared to join the group will find us.
There is saying in my language ''Malo nas je, al' nas ima'' roughly translated to english reads ''We are few but formidable.''

what to really say, though I know Laura wouldn't put up anything that would deceive or manipulate people. There is no way that things will continue the way they are, when so many people are suffering, when we are destroying ourselves and mother earth. Though it is discouraging to see the Facebook comments about this article and how little has been generated in the fundraiser. Everybody that can donate please do so, Sott does really need are help, they are doing this to help humanity and for no other reason. If Laura did not have such passion for the truth and compassion to help her brothers and sisters, she could have easily thrown in the towel long ago(I know I would have). Just imagine a world with out Sott, no light at all, just darkness.

Out of the two options I would like the comets, get it over with quicker and leave this shit hole. Maybe its a good thing that this world is quite possibly coming to an end. Maybe we need a new start.

Keep the option open that NOTHING really weird will happen and we will just be faced with dealing with a gang of psychopaths in charge of the planet. That's certainly an unpleasant prospect... some people would rather believe they are going to get saved by this or that phenomenon whether it is comets, Jesus or aliens. Maybe the only thing that will save humanity is human beings taking responsibility for their world en masse?

...it's time to partyyyyy! I mean, I spent my time living in stress and anxiety from the moment i got into the "who's behind the curtain" shit and I tried, I wrote, I spoke, made some good conversations but yeah, nobody gives a fuck. And with time, my loved ones passed violently away and now I am a broke depressed nobody who wakes up every morning to go to the fucking subway, mix with all the tech interconnected soulless mass with sunglasses on, iphone on and shit like that, bust my balls at work to get the pension at the end of the month to pay shit like petrol, rent, new things to replace the chinese don't work today things and above that to have to pretend that I have no prob with all this madness. Fuck that at last. Everything's going down the sink, with it gone are the norms, the nos and the yess, the political correct, the conspiracies, the money, all this bull... Fuck it. I am tired. Let's drink and drug to death at Acapulco Beach all day long and never look back again. Tear it down, burn it to the ground, it's going to burn anyway. The world cannot sustain our madness.

For the past few weeks before and after reading this article I noticed the theme in my life as well as others were massive attacks. What made a difference was how each person reacted to those attacks. Some chose to run from the situation while others decided to double their efforts towards their goals. It is the same reaction and feeling I am getting from this article and what SOTT has done after this article. This article was a message however the efforts afterwards speaks for itself. There has been a barrage of Fire coming from SOTT after this article that proves they are going to keep moving forward. I took some time out to watch a movie around the time this article was posted. The movie is called The Grey, in a particular scene the main character prayed and asked God to get him out of his terrible situation. He listed things he will do if God saved him and nothing happened. In the end he said "F*** it I'll do it myself". I guess something did happen. My experience and looking at everyone's experience I have learned that we cannot turn away when things seem the most difficult. We find a way to get through it. If it requires change then change it must be. It's just that change for some of us is the hardest thing to do and that is where the excuses come from. Thanks for this article and all the others that came after this.